ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,563, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Combustion injection and control method for rotary valve engine" was invented by Sikandar Khan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), . Fayyaz (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Hassan Javed (Angelholm, Sweden), Muhammad Waqas (Mianwali, Pakistan) and Agha Muhammad Jazim (Karachi, Pakistan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A independent rotary valve engine and a method for controlling thereof includes an engine crankcase, a crankshaft located therein, a bidirectional servo motor connected to the engine crankcase, a cylinder block connected to the engi...